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It's clear that Democrats are less enthusiastic about voting this year than Republicans. The latest evidence is from Gallup, which reports that the GOP's 3 percent edge in congressional voting among registered voters rises to 13 and 18 points when you include just those likely and very likely to vote. So why are Democrats less enthusiastic? And why has "the progressive donor base," as Democratic consultant Jim Jordans reports, "stopped writing checks"? It's not just because the economy remains sour or that President Obama failed to jam a public option in the health-care bill. I find a more convincing explanation...

When I was a kid, we had a tough little dachshund. Then we got a poodle who was as arrogant as you'd expect a poodle to be. The poodle constantly attacked the dachshund, even though time after time the dachshund would have the poodle on her back with her teeth around the poodle's throat in about 2 seconds every time they got into it. That's sort of like Obama and Bush. With Obama being the poodle, and Bush (despite the fact that he doesn't bother to defend his policies in the media) being the dachshund. Renditions? Obama got his butt...

""You ask, What is our policy? I will say; It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us. . . . That is our policy. You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory--victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." --Winston Churchill, first speech as prime minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 THE ARMED FORCES designate the struggle in...